The White Pine Award is a part of the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading®. The White Pine program offers high school-aged teens at all grade levels the opportunity to read the best of Canada's recent young adult fiction.
Also included in the competition are the following titles:
-36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You by Vicki Grant
-Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner
-Prince of Pot by Tanya Lloyd Kyi

The White Pine Award is a part of the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading®. The White Pine program offers high school-aged teens at all grade levels the opportunity to read the best of Canada's recent young adult fiction.
Looks like a great selection of nominees this year.

These are the middle grade and YA books chosen by the staff and owners at the following bookstores: McNally Robinson (Winnipeg and Saskatoon), Woozles (Halifax), Ella Minnow (Toronto), Kaleidoscope (Ottawa), and Babar Books (Montreal). The book begins with tween lit (to Seraphina) and moves to YA. fiction.

Kids, especially when they reach eight and older, can get pretty fascinated and all-consumed by certain topics—or bothered by social ills they see around them or that are affecting them. Here's a list that may have a book on it for a certain someone you know.